RÁDIO ETIÓPIA

OPENING THE END

by Tony Justerini

01. Gonçalo Botelho - Calm sea
02. Durutti Column - Sketch for dawn
03. Hadouk Trio - Ereboni solo
04. Haley Bonar - Too much nothing
05. Sigur Ros - Ara Bátur
06. Stars of the Lid - Dopamine clouds
07. Aphasia - The freedom highway
08. Phoenix and The Turtle - The trap
09. Â - A small track...
10. Rodrigo Leão - Amatorius
11. Paavoharju - Sumuvirsi
12. Syntax - Pride
13. Ane Brun - Temporary drive
14. Rickard Javerling - Martina's waltz
15. Leaves - The Angela test
16. Burial - Gutted
17. Mirah & the Spectratone International - Community
18. Johnny Greenwood - Prospectors arrived

photo by Victor Chalfant

RÁDIO ZERO 011

03 JANUARY 2009

O1. Tom Verlaine - The O of adore
02. The Veils - Vicious Traditions
03. Orchestral Manouevres in the Dark - Radio Prague
04. Windmill - Replace me
05. The Snake, The Cross, The Crown - Gipsy Melodies
06. Sylvian Chauveau - Mon royaume
07. Rivulets - Morning light
08. This Mortal Coil - Song to the siren
09. We Are Scientists - Hoppipola
10. Project Skyward - An afternoon in Sedona
11. Secret Machines - Flying
12. Mão Morta - A poção
13. Krzystof Penderecki - Utrenja
14. Tantra - Commitment to love
15. Cindy Kat - Glória
16. David Byrne & Brian Eno - Everything that happens
17. Roger Eno & Kate St John - The blue sea
18. Quiet Village - Victoria's secret

photo by Nathan Kern

SEX PISTOLS - NEVER MIND THE BOLLOCKS
HERE'S THE SEX PISTOLS

Never Mind the Bollocks, Here's the Sex Pistols is the first and only album recorded by the Sex Pistols, a highly influential and controversial English punk band. Fans and critics alike generally regard the album as an extremely important record in the history of rock music, citing the lasting influence it has had on subsequent punk musicians and other musical genres that were influenced by such punk rock artists.

The album was released on 28 October 1977 on the Virgin Records label, amid controversy arising from the use of the obscenity (in British English) "bollocks" in its title.
Older versions of most of the album's songs also appeared on a bootleg album called Spunk, which consists of demo recordings the band had made during 1976 and January 1977, and which was released shortly before Never Mind the Bollocks.
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Overview

Never Mind the Bollocks is the only official album released by the Sex Pistols while vocalist Johnny Rotten was a member of the group, although the same songs have subsequently appeared on many compilation albums (the group had effectively disbanded less than three months after the album's release). Many of the songs were featured in different versions in the film, The Great Rock 'n' Roll Swindle, a "mockumentary" loosely based on the Sex Pistols, but more about their manager (and the film's "mastermind"), Malcolm McLaren.
Never Mind the Bollocks was met by a hail of controversy in the UK upon its release. The first documented legal problems involved the allegedly 'obscene' name of the album, and the prosecution (under Section 28 of the Town Police Clauses Act 1847, since replaced by the Indecent Displays (Control) Act 1981) of the manager of the Nottingham Virgin record shop (and label owner Richard Branson) for having displayed it in a window. However, at Nottingham Magistrates' Court on 24 November 1977, defending Queen's Counsel John Mortimer produced expert witnesses who were able to demonstrate that the word "bollocks" was actually a legitimate Old English term originally used to refer to a priest, and which, in the context of the title, meant "nonsense". The chairman of the hearing was forced to conclude:
Much as my colleagues and I wholeheartedly deplore the vulgar exploitation of the worst instincts of human nature for the purchases of commercial profits by both you and your company, we must reluctantly find you not guilty of each of the four charges.
Far more intense outrage was sparked by the lyrics of the songs "God Save the Queen" and "Anarchy in the U.K.", as well as Jamie Reid's cover art for the single of "God Save the Queen". Both were perceived as outrageous and depraved musical assaults on the monarchy, British civil society, its institutions, the social order, general morality and common decency. In particular, "God Save the Queen" was viewed as a direct personal attack on Queen Elizabeth II. Guitarist Steve Jones, and singer Johnny Rotten, have both insisted that it was not the Queen that the band directed their animus towards, but other members of the royal house and the British government in general. In either case, the notoriety did little to harm the record's sales in the UK.
Rotten's bitten, over-articulated, angry vocals and his intentional avoidance of "good" singing were startlingly original in style, at that time, and his use of profanity and deliberately inflammatory language seemed downright shocking. He alternately screams and whines about corporate control, intellectual vacuity, and political hypocrisy, while guitarist Jones' multi-layered guitar tracks create a "wall of noise" to counter him.
Producer Chris Thomas took a different approach to recording Never Mind the Bollocks than was to become the norm on most later punk rock albums. Instead of capturing a "raw" or "live" sound, Thomas achieved a very clear, broad, and layered sonic palette via multiple guitar overdubs, and extremely tight musicianship. He said: "Anarchy has something like a dozen guitars on it; I sort of orchestrated it, double-tracking some bits and separating the parts and adding them, et cetera ... It was quite labored. The vocals were labored, as well." However, some, purists in particular, have argued that the album is over-produced, and that the impact of the songs is diminished by the refined sound quality. Some critics further contend that the Sex Pistols had lost their initial spark of energy and exuberance by the time Never Mind the Bollocks was recorded, and that any anger present in the songs sounds contrived. Nonetheless, the album's anger and energy are considered to have been trailblazing precedents for the then-nascent punk rock movement.

Charting and influence

Never Mind the Bollocks, Here's the Sex Pistols reached #1 on the Official UK Albums Chart, but in the USA peaked at #106 upon initial release on the Billboard albums chart. Although the album's sales were initially slim outside Europe, it would ultimately gain a substantial reputation worldwide, achieving Gold status with the RIAA in 1987 (denoting 500,000 sales) and Platinum status (1,000,000 sales) just four years later.
Likewise, influential critics consider Never Mind the Bollocks to have been a central formative influence on punk rock and subsequent forms of popular music.
In 1985, NME writers voted Never Mind the Bollocks the 13th greatest album of all time. In 1993, NME writers voted the album the 3rd greatest of all time.
In 1987, Rolling Stone magazine named it the second-most important album of the previous 20 years, behind only The Beatles' Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band. The same magazine named it the 41st greatest album of all time on their list of the 500 Greatest Albums of All Time in 2003. In an interview during 2002, Rolling Stone journalist Charles M. Young stated:
Never Mind the Bollocks changed everything. There had never been anything like it before and really there's never been anything quite like it since. The closest was probably Nirvana, a band very heavily influenced by the Sex Pistols.
In his 1995 book, The Alternative Music Almanac, Alan Cross placed the album in the #6 spot on the list of '10 Classic Alternative Albums'. In 1997, Never Mind the Bollocks was named the 24th greatest album of all time in a Music of the Millennium poll conducted in the United Kingdom by HMV Group, Channel 4, The Guardian and Classic FM. In 1998, Q magazine readers voted Never Mind the Bollocks the 30th greatest album of all time, and in 2000 the same magazine placed it at number 10 in its list of the 100 Greatest British Albums Ever.
The VH1 network named Never Mind the Bollocks as the 17th greatest album of all time in 2001. The album also placed number one in a "Fifty Greatest Punk Albums Ever" readers' poll in Kerrang! magazine.[7]
In 2006, it was chosen by Time magazine as one of the 100 best albums of all time, and in the same year NME voted the album the 4th greatest British album of all time.

Track listing

The original UK album (Virgin V2086) contained only eleven tracks, before the group changed their mind and decided to include "Submission".
However, Virgin had already pre-emptively produced stampers for the eleven-track version, and by early October 1977 had already pressed 1,000 copies. Rather than scrap these, Virgin released them anyway, initially as promos, then commercially, as an attempt to counteract a sudden flood of imports from France, where a twelve-track version of the album (including "Submission") had been released in mid-October by Barclay Records.
In response to this, Virgin also brought forward the album's intended UK release date by a week, and instead of waiting for the twelve-track album to be mastered, issued further copies of the eleven-track album (reportedly 50,000 copies, although some collectors now dispute these official figures as on the high side). Most of these copies included a poster and "Submission" as a freebie single.
Some of the initial 11 track copies saw a private import to Sweden and were sold for a few weeks at a record shop in Stockholm. The poster and "Submission" were not included at this stage. An article in a local paper warned people not to buy this "faulty" issue and advised them to wait for the 12 track issue that was about to be pressed. The article also had a quote from Virgin in London where they say all production and sale have been stopped, but some copies unfortunately leaked out through their export company. This issue had blank back cover and matrix numbers A-1 and B-1.
The twelve-track UK version began appearing in early November 1977.
As a result of the track listing confusion, several variants of the UK back sleeve exist: completely blank; omitting "Submission"; including "Submission"; and a misprint including "Belsen Was a Gas" and omitting several other tracks, based on artwork for an earlier rejected track listing.
All songs written by Steve Jones/Glen Matlock/Paul Cook/Johnny Rotten, except * by Jones/Cook/Rotten/Sid Vicious. All lyrics by Rotten (original "Seventeen" lyrics by Jones, original "Pretty Vacant" lyrics by Matlock).

Twelve track version

Side one
1. "Holidays in the Sun" – 3:22 *
2. "Bodies" – 3:03 *
3. "No Feelings" – 2:51
4. "Liar" – 2:41
5. "God Save the Queen" – 3:20
6. "Problems" – 4:11
Side two
1. "Seventeen" – 2:02
2. "Anarchy in the U.K." – 3:32
3. "Submission" – 4:12
4. "Pretty Vacant" – 3:18
5. "New York" – 3:05
6. "E.M.I." – 3:10

USA (Warner Bros. BSK3147) and Canada (Warner Bros. KBS3147) artwork is green on pink, track listing reverses "God Save the Queen" and "Problems".
• Original French track listing (Barclay Records 941 001) as UK eleven-track version with "Submission" at the end of side one.

Personnel
• Johnny Rotten - lead vocals
• Steve Jones - guitar, bass, backing vocals
• Paul Cook - drums
• Glen Matlock - bass guitar and backing vocals ("Anarchy in the U.K.")
• Sid Vicious - bass guitar ("Bodies")

WRITTEN ON SKY

By Anatoly Brooks

01. Intro
02. Akira Kosemura - Garden
03. Aesthesy - Jacques Ives Costeau & deepest surface
04. Piano Magic - Crown estate
05. Eleni Karaindron - The tree
06. Lito Vitale - La anera
07. Wood & Wires - Canes venatici
08. Terry Lee Hale - Streets of stone
09. Empyrium - The shepherd & the maiden ghost
10. Pg Lost - Yes i am
11. Agalloch - Birch white
12. Max Richter - Written on sky
13. The Land of Nod - Reality channel
14. Piano Magic - Birdy machine
15. Tom Waits - Time
16. Put Your Hand In Mine - At the bar i
17. Andrei Machado - Relapso
18. Anghra & Mosh Patrol - Courage & courtesy
19. Fleet Foxes - Tiger moutain peasant song
20. Rafael Anton Irisarri - Wither
21. Max Richter - Written on sky + Al Berto-Queria ser
marinheiro

A photo by Alexsander Kustov

RADIO ZERO 010

28 December 2008

01. Ludovico Eunaudi - Uno (Ovature)
02. The Blue Nile - Over the hill side
03. Lighspeed Champion - Dry lips
04. The Tiger Lillies - Hailstones
05. Kasumasa Hashimoto - Endless
06. Damien Rice - Older chests
07. Idaho - To be the one
08. Melodium - Flacana + Natália Correia - O testamento dos
namorados
09. Gustavo Santa Olalla - Coyita
10. This Mortal Coil - Another day
11. Sufjan Stevens - Flint
12. Iron & Wine - Unknown
13. Andrew Bird - Tables & chairs
14. Imogem Heap - Hide & seek
15. Sebastien Schuller - 1978

A photo by Yuri B.

Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young - Déjà-Vu

Déjà Vu was the first album Crosby, Stills & Nash released since the absorption of Neil Young into the group. Some noted the influence of Buffalo Springfield (which both Stills and Young had been members of), and the album even included unreleased Buffalo Springfield song "Down Down Down".

Stills estimates that the album took somewhere in the neighborhood of 800 hours of studio time to record; this figure may be exaggerated, even though the individual tracks display meticulous attention to detail.[1]

In May 1970, two months after the album was released, the group recorded Neil Young's quickly penned response to the Kent State shootings, "Ohio." That single, backed with Stephen Stills' "Find the Cost of Freedom," was released in late June of the same year, making it to #14 on the Billboard Hot 100, notwithstanding its accusatory sentiment.

In 2003, the album was ranked number 147 on Rolling Stone magazine's list of the 500 greatest albums of all time. The same year, the TV network VH1 named Déjà Vu the 61st greatest album of all time. The album ranked at #14 for the Top 100 Albums of 1970 and #217 overall by Rate Your Music.

The album was reissued for compact disc on October 25, 1990, and was re-released after being remastered from the original tapes at Ocean View Digital on September 6, 1994.

Track listing

"Carry On" (Stills) – 4:26
"Teach Your Children" (Graham Nash) – 2:53
"Almost Cut My Hair" (David Crosby) – 4:31
"Helpless" (Young) – 3:33
"Woodstock" (Joni Mitchell) – 3:54
"Déjà Vu" (Crosby) – 4:12
"Our House" (Nash) – 2:59
"4 + 20" (Stills) – 2:04
"Country Girl" (Young) – 5:11
"Whiskey Boot Hill"
"Down, Down, Down"
Country Girl (I Think You're Pretty)
"Everybody I Love You" (Stills, Young) – 2:21

[edit] Personnel
Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young

David Crosby : Guitars, vocals.
Stephen Stills : Guitars, bass guitar, keyboards, vocals.
Graham Nash: Guitars, keyboards, vocals.
Neil Young: Guitars, keyboards, harmonica, vocals.

[edit] Additional personnel
Greg Reeves: Bass guitar, percussion.
Dallas Taylor: Drums, Percussion.
Jerry Garcia: Pedal steel guitar on "Teach Your Children"
John Sebastian: Harmonica on "Déjà vu"

[edit] Production
Producers: David Crosby, Stephen Stills, Graham Nash, Neil Young
Engineer: Bill Halverson
Art direction: Gary Burden
Design: Gary Burden
Photography: Henry Diltz, Tom Gundelfinger
Direction: Elliot Roberts and associates

THE SIREN'S SONG

by Tony Justerini

01. Aesthesys - Siren's song
02. Antennas to Heaven - 27 Minute problem
03. Set Fire To Flames - I will be true
04. Keser - In the next beginning
05. The Goldfinger Recordings - Autumn
06. Bark Psychosis - Codename dust
07. The Goldfinger Recordings - Coma
08. Murrmurr - Neon
09. Antennasia - AI
10. A Challenge of Honour - Slavery called democracy
11. This Day We Die - Untitled
12. Childs - Intro
13. Childs - Yui
14. Yes - And you and I
15. Crisope - Suenos de Babirusa
16. Worm is Green - Synthia
17. Ulan Bator - Selva
18. Friends of Dean Martinez - All the pretty horses

photo by Tatiana Bogdanova

RÁDIO ZERO 009

20 December 2008

01. Theatre of Hate - Ovature
02. Red House Painters - Bubble
03. Frankie Goes to Hollywood - Bang
04. Richard Thompson - Mingulay Boat Song
05. Anoice - Go home through a broken window
06. Les Fragments de la Nuit - Les Eaux Dormants
07. Aesthesys - I am free, that's why I'm lost
08. EF - Soon
09. Bryan Ferry - Positively 4th street
10. Gastr Del Sol - Bauchredner
11. Calla - Promenade
12. The Sound of Animals Fighting - Lude
13. The Static Silence - In Colour
14. Marianne Faithfull - How many worlds
15. Johnnytwentythree - Last exit
16. Balmorhea - Limmat
17. Achilea - Prologo
18. Paulo Bragança - Remar, remar

photo by Fernando Vintilde Aras

THE DAY THE MUSIC DIE

By Anatoly Brooks

01. Intro
02. Trent Reznor- Videotrones: Quetions
03. Tom Waits- What's he building ?
04. Scott Walker- Cossacks are
05. Klaus Nomi- Dido's lament
06. Gang of Four- Paralysed
07. Maserati- Inventions
08. Swans- Celebrity lifestyle
09. Angelo Badalamenti- Police
10. Vanessa Van Basten- Good Morning+M. Viegas-Cena do ódio
11. Van Der Graaf Generator- Still life
12. Bauhaus- Crowds
13. Pixies- Vamos
14. Tuxedomoon- Volo vivace
15. Danny Cohen- Cold snap conundrum
16. Fuck Buttons- Ribs out
17. The Young Gods- Alabama song
18. Meanwhile Back In Communist Russia- Anatomies
19. Banda do Casaco- Cantiga d'embalar avózinhas

A picture by Beatriz R.

RÁDIO ZERO 008

13 DECEMBER 2008

01. Damien Jurado - Survived by her husband
02. Death Cab for Cutie - A movie script ending
03. Françoiz Breut - Km 83
04. The Dandy Warholls - I am sound
05. Ola Podrida - Eastbound
06. Blueneck - Amoc
07. Beth Gibbons - Show
08. PJ Harvey - This mess we're in
09. Leo Kottke - Trombone
10. João Villaret - O menino de sua mãe
11. Fink - So long
12. GNR - Muçulmania
13. Eels - Rags to Rags
14. Elliot Smith - Let's get lost
15. Bosques de Mi Mente - Trenes de juguete
16. Sun Kil Moon - Grey Ice water
17. Six Organs of Admittance - Words for two
18. Damien Jurado - Survived by her husband

photo by Tatyana Savvateeva

ECHOES FROM A WANDERED PATH

by Tony Justerini

01. David Gilmour - Shine on you Crazy Diamond
02. The Sound of Animals Fighting - Intro
03. Strange Call Lilli Line - Error Slow
04. Takeshi Nishimoto - New morning
05. Ef - Ett
06. Agalloch - Simmerisle reprise
07. Marianne Faithfull - Dear God please help me
08. Aesthesys - At five in the afternoon
09. Ryuichi Sakamoto & David Byrne - The Red Guard dance
10. Akira Kosemura - Drizzle
11. Fifths of Seven - Echoes from a wandered path
12. Maria Callas - La Mamma Morta
13. David Bowie - Station to Station
14. Neil Young - Philadelphia
15. Johnnytwentythree - Red bird
16. Patti Smith & Kevin Shields - The coral sea
17. Future Loop Foundation - Stereo 72
18. North - Body abandoned
19. Susumu Yokota - Hisen
20. Ef - Hello Scotland
21. The Gift - How the end... Always end

photo by Basil G

VIRGINIA ASTLEY - FROM GARDENS WERE WE FEEL SECURE

From Gardens Where We Feel Secure is the title of the first Virginia Astley album issued on her own Happy Valley label and distributed by Rough Trade Records.

The album was released in July 1983 and peaked at number 4 in the UK Indie Chart. The album was trailed by a couple of its tracks A Summer Long Since Past and It's Too Hot to Sleep, which were included on the 12" of the earlier single Love's a lonely place to be.

The album is an instrumental collection of tone poems that describe the cycle and mirror the moods of an indolent summer day. The album began life as a series of demos produced by John Foxx at the Crépuscule studios, where he was working at the time. The album is notable for its structure, moving from dawn to dusk, and its use of natural, sound effects. In 1986, Astley and Ryuichi Sakamoto re-recorded "A Summer Long Since Past", re-naming it "A Summer Long Since Passed" and including it in her 1986 album Hope in a Darkened Heart. "From Gardens..." was re-mastered and re-released by Rough Trade as a CD in 2003.

Critical Reaction
The album was praised by critics. Stewart Mason, writing for Allmusic, stated:

“ Almost entirely instrumental, save for a few wordless vocals on "A Summer Long Since Past," and featuring little instrumentation besides Astley's piano and some subtle woodwinds, the album is a lovely 35-minute meditation built around field recordings Astley made of the ambient sounds of the rural English countryside. This description makes the album sound much more twee and insubstantial than it actually is; however, Astley is no mere ambient noodler. These nine songs are melodically rich and varied; mood pieces in the truest sense of the term. ”

Track listing

"Morning: With My Eyes Wide Open I'm Dreaming" - 5:43
"Morning: A Summer Long Since Past" - 4:36
"Morning: From Gardens Where We Feel Secure" - 3:59
"Morning: Hiding In The Ha-Ha" - 3:55
"Afternoon: Out On The Lawn I Lie In Bed" - 5:09
"Afternoon: Too Hot For Peacocks" - 2:29
"Afternoon: Summer Of Their Dreams" - 3:21
"Afternoon: When The Fields Were On Fire" - 3:25
"Afternoon: It's Too Hot To Sleep" - 5:18

All instruments played by Virginia Astley

IF.YOU.ONLY.KNEW.THE.RAIN

By Anatoly Brooks

01. Intro
02. The Feelies - Loveless love
03. Giant Sand - Standed pearl
04. Your Hand In Mine - Tea time
05. Peixe : Avião - Atiro ao alvo
06. Signal Hill - This new year's absence
07. Maserati- Inventions + David Mourão Ferreira- Testamento
08. Tunturia - Cast shadows on clouds
09. Woods & Wires - Canes venatici
10. Jim White - Jailbird
11. Gravenhurst - Still water
12. Headless Heroes - Just one time
13. Ginorons - Blink in blue
14. Yann Tiersen & Shannon Wright - Dragon fly
15. Balmorhea - If you only the rain
16. Peixe : Avião - Barbitúrica luz

RÁDIO ZERO 007

06 DECEMBER 2008

01. Peter Baumann - Romance
02. Popol Vuh - Als lebten die
03. Michael Rother - Sbherz
04. Kraftwerk - Heimatklange
05. Kraftwerk - Europe Endless
06. Klaus Schulze - Some velvet phasing
07. Tristeza - En nuestro desafio
08. Helios - Fourteen drawings
09. The Album Leaf - Shine
10. Giorgio Moroder - Cat people
11. Donna Summer - State of Independence
12. Malcolm Mclaren - Madame Butterfly

a photo by Dido

LIFESTYLE

BY JOÃO H

01- Buckethead – Nottingham Lace
02- Mark Knopfler – Sands Of Nevada
03- Ben Harper - Show Me Little Shame
04- Carlos do Carmo – O Cacilheiro
05- David Bowie – I Wish You Would
06- Roger Waters – Four Minutes
07- Janis Joplin – Misery’N
08- Dream Theater – A Change Of Seasons
09- Dead Combo – Mr. Eastwood
10- System Of A Down – Suggestions
11- Down – The Path
12- Pearl Jam - World Wide Suicide

A.NEW.HOPE

by Tony Justerini

01. The Cinematic Orchestra - The Magicien
02. Wonderland Falling Yesterday - Grandfather clock...
03. Your Hand in Mine - Siren
04. Lunatic Soul - Summerland
05. A-Fei - Fluitans
06. Virginia Astley - A summer long since passed
07. Tunturia - Satellites
08. Iggy Pop - No sx#t
09. Joy Wants Eternity - From embrace to embrace
10. Bosques de Mi Mente - Cuando eramos ninos
11. Kaada - Julia Pastrana
12. Logh - A new hope
13. Scarlett Johansson - Falling down
14. The One AM Radio - Flicker
15. The Tiger Lillies - Hailstones
16. Popol Vuh - Andacht
17. Richard Wright - Blue room in Venice
18. Secret Machines - You are chains
19. The Cinematic Orchestra - Drunken tune
20. Human Bell - Sleeps in the garden
21. Sigmatropic - I will never forget you

photo by Samoamax

RÁDIO ZERO 006

29 NOVEMBER 2008

01. Intro
02. Bernardo Sassetti - Sonhos dos outros
03. Akron Family - I'll be on the water
04. Sufjan Stevens - Holland
05. Gnac - Chenin blanc
06. Hugo Largo - Turtle song
07. Fausto - Cantiga do desemprego
08. Twinemen - Who's gonna sing
09. Esbjorn Svensson Trio - Believe beleft below
10. Mário Viegas - A morte na madrugada
11. Electric President - Ten thousand lines
12. Apparat - Hailin from the edge
13. Fridge - Our place in this
14. Frida Hyvonen - See how I came into town
15. Helio Sequence - Blood bleeds
16. The Magnetic Fields - Nothing mathers when we're dancing
17. Tom Paxton- Whose garden was this
18. Max Richter - Vladimir's blues

photo by Carmen Spitznagel

SÉRGIO GODINHO - PANO CRU

É um disco em que – à excepção de um trecho, ‘O homem-fantasma’, com arranjo do Zíngaro – os arranjos são consequência da contribuição dos outros músicos”. Sérgio Godinho, naquele que para muitos é o seu melhor disco de sempre, prefere repartir responsabilidades e dividir os louros por toda a equipa. “Foi um método de trabalho em que peguei numa série de pessoas, nomeadamente o Guilherme Inês, o Zíngaro, o meu irmão Paulo, ou o Pedro Osório, e trabalhámos até encontrar soluções que me conviessem. De uma maneira informal e sem arranjos pré-escritos”. Uma opção “que vinha um bocado de trás” e “consequência de um trabalho que nunca deixou de acontecer mas foi talvez assumido de uma maneira mais funda neste disco”. Desta união de esforços resultaram uma “simplicidade instrumental e arranjos bastante básicos”, mas que o autor considera “bastante eficazes”. “Tem um som, agora com a história do CD, que eu ouvi e achei muito límpido. O próprio som do Moreno Pinto, um técnico que na altura fazia trabalhos muito bons, agrada-me muito”.
Disco de clássicos, “Pano-Cru” corresponde a um pico de inspiração na carreira discográfica de Sérgio Godinho. “Tínhamos saído um pouco da ressaca pós-PREC. Estava-se num período de mudança muito rápido e havia uma energia criativa que sentia à minha volta. A minha energia estava então mais virada para o futuro do que para lamentar o passado. Não gosto de chorar sobre o leite derramado. Havia coisas que se tinham perdido, mas, por outro lado, estavam em elaboração outras que, para mim, eram exaltantes, como o facto de poder trabalhar ao vivo com os músicos que eu queria, algo que na altura do PREC não era possível. Nessa altura, por exemplo, o Zíngaro tocava muitas vezes comigo. Tudo isto se reflecte no disco que foi imediatamente testado ao vivo numa digressão que fiz, de genérico, ‘Sete anos de canções’, correspondente à aparição de uma cooperativa, a Era Nova. Onde estavam o Zeca, o Fausto, o Vitorino, e da qual a primeira iniciativa foi esta digressão, um pouco por inspiração do Camilo Mortágua, que era um bocado a ‘alma pater’ desta cooperativa. Foram 24 espectáculos em 20 capitais de distrito. De uma maneira, para a altura, heróica, e da qual saímos com magros resultados financeiros. Fomos a sítios onde não havia nada e nos chegavam a perguntar se íamos tocar ‘variedades’”.
Entre todas as canções de “Pano-Cru” há uma que permanece, de uma maneira quase obsessiva, na memória: ‘O primeiro dia’. “Curiosamente, não começou por ser um ‘hit’ evidente. Demorou até ser interiorizada”. Sérgio Godinho define-a como “uma canção de ruptura, de repensar as coisas e encontrar uma certa sabedoria para o futuro”. “Nesse aspecto”, diz, “é uma canção que me persegue. No espectáculo ‘Escritor de Canções’ fiz questão de não a cantar, para a deixar repousar um bocado.” [Sérgio Godinho abriu aqui um parênteses para anunciar a edição, já no princípio de Dezembro, de um disco ao vivo, com o título “Noites Passadas”, registando os espectáculos no Coliseu e no S. Luiz, em Lisboa, e no Rivoli, no Porto, do ano passado e no qual se inclui uma versão, ‘muito boa’, de “O primeiro dia”.]
“Balada da Rita”, do filme “Kilas, o Mau da Fita”, é outro momento inesquecível de “Pano-Cru”. Uma canção “assumida no feminino”, e “cantada por um homem”. “Foi composta para ser cantada por uma mulher, a Lia Gama, aliás, como acontece na primeira versão, numa edição raríssima, da banda-sonora, e no próprio filme”. Sérgio Godinho deixou, no entanto, sempre no ar a possibilidade de ser ele a cantá-la. “Agrada-me essa ambiguidade de cantar na primeira pessoa do feminino, uma coisa que, curiosamente, foram sobretudo os brasileiros a fazer, o Caetano, o Chico, mas que não existe muito na música americana ou na francesa. Há uma espécie de pudor em relação a isso”. Uma canção, ainda, que o músico considera de “difícil versificação, porque tem três rimas seguidas diferentes que têm que rimar com outras três”. “Lá isso é”, retomada recentemente pelos Sitiados, é apontada como uma das canções que Sérgio Godinho deixou de cantar. “Há coisas na letra que perderam actualidade, mas isso parece não os incomodar muito. Coisas de pormenor, como uma quadra que diz ‘Há partidos de direita que põem sempre a bola ao centro, mas quem melhor os fintar é que vai marcar o tento’. Eles nem tinham percebido que a bola ao centro era a do CDS”.
Outra canção que Sérgio Godinho nunca cantou ao vivo é “2º andar direito”, a conversa nocturna entre dois amantes que se tornou num dos temas mais apreciados pelos admiradores deste compositor-intérprete. “É uma canção de frases, de diálogo, que curiosamente foi objecto de um exercício da Escola de Cinema, quando o Ricardo Pais era lá professor. Ele propôs aos alunos fazer uma planificação, um ‘script’ a partir dela. Há uma sugestão de diálogo permanente, de situações imagéticas. Houve mesmo um filme de dez minutos feito com esses ‘scripts’ para a televisão, pelo Ricardo Nogueira, que nunca mais vi”.
É a vertente cinematográfica da obra de Sérgio Godinho aqui já a fazer-se sentir e que o autor mais tarde viria a desenvolver através da sua linguagem própria. Como um realizador que planifica a vida em ‘sketches’, Sérgio Godinho observa do exterior, através da lente ou, neste caso, do vizinho que vive no apartamento ao lado do dos amantes. “Aliás, nesse tal filme de dez minutos, eu fazia precisamente de vizinho. Há um volte-face nessa canção. Está a ser contada por um narrador que depois se descobre ser um terceiro personagem. A partir daí, o narrador passa a ser eu, eu compositor, eu autor da canção. A introdução de um elemento inesperado, uma nova personagem, rouba o protagonismo ao casal. Existe um lado ficcional que pode ser cinematográfico”. Um “exercício de ficção”, ao contrário de “O primeiro dia”, que tem “algo de autobiográfico”.

Fernando Magalhães in "Poeira Cósmica"

Track Listing:

01. A vida é feita de pequenos nadas
02. O primeiro dia
03. O galo é o dono dos ovos
04. Balada da Rita
05. Venho aqui falar
06. Lá isso é
07. Feiticeira
08. O homem fantasma
09. 2º andar, direito
10. Pano cru

Personnel:

Sérgio Godinho- Voz, Viola e Coros
Paulo Godinho- Baixo
Carlos Zingaro- Violino e Cavaquinho
Guilherme Scarpa- Bateria e Percussões
Shila- Percussões e Coros
Eugénia Melo e Castro- Coros
Pedro Osório- Piano e Acordeão
Carlinhos Tumbadoura-Ferrinhos e Tumbadoura
Fausto- Coros
Armindo Neves- Viola Solo
José Custódio- Trombone
Fernando de Sousa- Clarinete
Fernando dos Santos- Clarinete
Manuel Cachão- Trompete
Moreno Pinto- Ferrinhos
Raúl Mendes- Harmónica
Hugo Lourenço- Locutor (2º andar direito)

1978

SISTER MOON

By Anatoly Brooks

01. Intro
02. Anoice - Untitled III
03. Amélie - Sur le fil
04. Kafafindunya - Demo
05. Joe Frawley - Sketches from memory
06. Emannuele Errante - Fecunda
07. Empyrium - Dying broken hearted
08. Lightspeed Champion - Devil tricks for a bitch
09. Raphael - In paradiso
10. 3epkano - At land
11. Lou Rhodes - Sister moon
12. Caspian - Our breaths in the winter
13. Lullatone - Building castles in the sky
14. Andreas Vollenweider - Phases of the three moons
15. Lhasa - My name
16. Té - Existence of eloquence...
17. Stephen Malkmus - We can help you
18. Amber Asylum - Still point pt. 1
19. Max Richter - The blue note books

A picture by Utagawa Hiroshige

RÁDIO ZERO 005

22 November 2008

01. Raphael - Serpent
02. Mário Cesariny - Pastelaria
03- Genesis - The waiting room
04. Genesis - Silent sorrow in empty boats
05. Anoice - Untitled IV
06. Tunturia - Cast Shadows in Clouds
07. Last Voice - Muscat
08. Aphex Twin - White blur I
09. Virginia Astley - Some small hope
10. September Malevolence - Departure
11. Roger Waters - Perfect Sence, part 1
12. Piana - Muse
13. Sia - Lullaby
14. Aranis - Jona
15. Rodrigo Leão - Gente Diferente
16. David Sylvian - Blackwater
17. The Ultimate Architects - Soma
18. Anoice - The three days blow

GERRY RAFFERTY - CITY TO CITY

City to City is an album by Scottish singer-songwriter Gerry Rafferty. The album was strongly received and went to #1 in the US, going Platinum. By 1988 the album had gone 5 x Platinum.

Rafferty had checked himself into St Thomas' Hospital hospital for liver problems. However, he disappeared on 1 August 2008, leaving his belongings behind. The hospital filed a missing persons report.

Track listing

All songs written by Gerry Rafferty.
1. "The Ark" – 5:36
2. "Baker Street" – 6:01
3. "Right Down The Line" – 4:20
4. "City to City" – 4:51
5. "Stealin' Time" – 5:39
6. "Mattie's Rag" – 3:28
7. "Whatever's Written in Your Heart" – 6:30
8. "Home and Dry" – 4:52
9. "Island" – 5:04
10. "Waiting for the Day" – 5:07

Personnel

• Gerry Rafferty – vocals, acoustic guitar 1 4 5, backing vocals 1 7, piano 10
• Gary Taylor – bass 1 2 3 4 5 6 8 9 10, backing vocals 4
• Henry Spinetti – drums 1 2 3 4 5 6 8 10
• Hugh Burns – guitar 2 3 4 5 8 9 10
• Tommy Eyre – piano 1 3 6 7 8, electric piano 5 9 10, grand piano 5, Moog synthesizer 2 5 7 8, organ 3 9 10, keyboards 2 4, brass arrangements 10
• Graham Preskett – fiddles 1 4 6 10, string arrangements 2 6 8, string machine 5 6, brass arrangements 6, mandolin

• Additional personnel

• Jerry Donahue – guitar 1
• Glen LeFleur – tambourine 1 5, percussion 2 3 10, drums 9
• Barbara Dickson – backing vocals 1 7
• Nigel Jenkins – guitar 2 8
• Raphael Ravenscroft – saxophone 2 9
• Brian Cole – steel guitar 3 4 5 9, dobro 6
• Roger Brown – backing vocals 4
• Vivian McAuliff – backing vocals 4
• John McBurnie – backing vocals 4
• Rab Noakes – backing vocals 4
• Paul Jones – harmonica 4
• Hugh Murphy – tambourine 4
• Micky Moody – acoustic guitar 5

HOME IS FAR FROM HERE

By Anatoly Books

01. Intro
02. Mathew Robert Cooper - Miniature 2
03. Peter Broderik - A simple reminder
04. Andrei Machado - Eu sei que sou fraco
05. Infected Mushroom - Jeenge
06. Max Richter - On the nature of daylight
07. Dustin O'Halloran - Opus 38
08. Jeff Buckley - Lilac wine
09. Gearge Winston - The cradle
10. Espers - Moon ocults the sun
11. Sebastien Schuller - Where we had never gone
12. Bersarin Quartett - Endlich am ziel
13. Tom Waits - All the world is green
14. Raz Ohara & the Odd Orchestra - Set on you
15. Glowworm - Lux
16. Hans Joachim Roedelius & Tim Story - Inladish
17. The White Birch - Silly Malone
18. Erik Wollo - Satellite
19. Misia - Fogo preso + Immanu El - I know you so well

A photo by Leon

RÁDIO ZERO 004

15 NOVEMBER 2008

01. Intro
02. Damien Jurado - Hotel hospital
03. Damien Jurado - Hoquiam
04. Ry Cooder - I knew these people
05. Low - The plan
06. Rodrigo Leão - Dragão
07. VAST - You're too young
08. James Yorkston - Woozy with Cid
09. Patrick Wolf - Magpie
10. The National - Karen
11. Novembro - Solidão a dois
12. Ulrich Schnauss - Passing by
+ David Mourão Ferreira - A meio da noite
13. Okkervil River - Savannah smiles
14. Rufus Wainwright - In a graveyard
15. Helios - Emancipation
16. Terry Lee Hale - Oliva

photo by Jedzer

DAVID SYLVIAN - SECRETS OF THE BEEHIVE

Secrets of the Beehive is the third solo album of David Sylvian, which was released in 1987. Produced by Steve Nye and David Sylvian, the album features Ryuichi Sakamoto, David Torn, Mark Isham and Steve Jansen among others.

Track listing
All tracks composed by David Sylvian unless otherwise noted
1. "September" - 1:17
2. "The Boy With the Gun" - 5:19
3. "Maria" - 2:49
4. "Orpheus" - 4:51
5. "The Devil's Own" - 3:12
6. "When Poets Dreamed of Angels" - 4:47
7. "Mother and Child" - 3:15
8. "Let the Happiness In" - 5:37
9. "Waterfront" - 3:23
10. "Forbidden Colours" (1984 version - bonus track on certain editions) (Sakamoto, Sylvian) - 6:01
• The 2003 remastered edition of the album has the song "Promise (The Cult of Eurydice)" replacing "Forbidden Colours".

• David Sylvian (born David Alan Batt, 23 February 1958, in Beckenham, Kent, UK) is an English singer, musician and composer who first gained attention as the lead vocalist and main songwriter in the band Japan. His subsequent solo career has been influenced by a variety of musical styles and genres, including jazz, avant garde, ambient, electronic, and progressive rock.

SONGS OF MYSTERY AND WONDER - PART 2

by Tony Justerini

01. Raphael - Serpent
02. Epic45 - England fallen over
03. Tunturia - Silence is consent
04. Helios - Hope Valley Hill
05. Tristeza - Cinematography
06. Russian Red - Cigarettes
07. Headless Heroes - Nobody's baby now
08. Philip Glass - Not a jew
09. Erik Wollo - Valley
10. The American Dollar - Palestine
11. The Tallest Man on Earth - The white winds & the white boat
12. Anoice - Untitled 1
13. Anoice - The three days blow
14. Yes - To be over
15. Eluvium - Reciting the airships
16. Final Fantasy - The sea

SONGS OF MYSTERY AND WONDER - PART 1

by Tony Justerini

01. Intro
02. Wood and Wires - Telescopium
03. Aranis - Jona
04. Steve Roach & Robert Rich - The grotto of time lost
05. The Land of Nod - Filtration
06. Stars - A thread cut with a carving knife
07. Radiohead - Let down
08. Piano Magic - Bad patient
09. California Stories Uncovered - #1
10. Tunturia - Cast shadows on clouds
11. Le Mépris - Hashirihaki suru
12. Yann Tiersen & Shannon Wright - Callous sun
13. Signal Hill - Standby, Sir
14. Beware of Safety - Veneklasen
15. Your Hand in Mine - Intro

photo by Aleksej Kachurin

RADIO ZERO 003

11 NOVEMBER 2008

01. Aughra & Mosh Patrol - The more things change...
02. Steve Hackett - Firth or Fifth ( excerpt )
03. Stars of the Lid - Apreludes in C Sharp Major
04. Lou Reed - The tell tale heart
05. Roger Eno - Transparent Deviation
06. Amiina - Sogg
07. Jim Morrison - Bird of prey
08. Corpo Diplomático - Kayatronic
09. Mário Viegas - Há muito tempo
10. Lou Reed - Hop Frog
11. Burial - Untitled
12. Hipnotica - New communities for better days
13. The Cinematic Orchestra - That home
14. Robert Plant & Alison Krauss - Your journey
15. Space Odissey OST - Hal 9000 dialogue
16. Ludovico Einaudi - Melodia africana
17. The Album Leaf - Another day
18. Lou Reed - Annabel Lee
19. Olafur Arnalds - #2
20. Boards of Canada - One very important thought
21. Aughra & Mosh Patrol - The more things change...

GENESIS - WIND AND WUTHERING

Wind & Wuthering is a studio album by British progressive rock band Genesis, originally released in the UK on 27 December 1976 and in the US and other territories on 7 January 1977.
Tony Banks has said Wind & Wuthering is one of his two favourite Genesis albums.[ Steve Hackett has also stated that he is "very fond" of this album.

Chart performance

Wind & Wuthering reached number 7 in the UK and #26 in the US. In the US, "Your Own Special Way" gained FM airplay.
Titles
The album's title derives from two pieces: The "Wind" comes from "The House of the Four Winds", the title given by Hackett to a piece that later became the quiet bridge for "Eleventh Earl of Mar"; the "Wuthering" alludes to the novel Wuthering Heights by Emily Brontë. The titles of tracks 7 and 8 are derived from the novel's closing sentence: "I lingered round them, under that benign sky: watched the moths fluttering among the heath and harebells, listened to the soft wind breathing through the grass, and wondered how any one could ever imagine unquiet slumbers for the sleepers in that quiet earth."
"Eleventh Earl of Mar" refers to the historical figure of John Erskine, 11th Earl of Mar by one reckoning.
"Wot Gorilla?" is a reference to touring drummer Chester Thompson being namechecked on "Florentine Pogen", a track on Frank Zappa's 1975 album One Size Fits All. Thompson performed drums on the track, the outro section of which features the repeated vocal phrase "Chester's gorilla"

Track listing

Side one
1. "Eleventh Earl of Mar" (Tony Banks/Steve Hackett/Mike Rutherford) – 7:41
2. "One for the Vine" (Tony Banks) – 10:00
3. "Your Own Special Way" (Mike Rutherford) – 6:19
4. "Wot Gorilla?" (Tony Banks/Phil Collins) – 3:19

Side two

1. "All in a Mouse's Night" (Tony Banks) – 6:37
2. "Blood on the Rooftops" (Steve Hackett/Phil Collins) – 5:27
3. "Unquiet Slumbers for the Sleepers..." (Steve Hackett/Mike Rutherford) – 2:23
4. "...In That Quiet Earth" (Steve Hackett/Mike Rutherford/Tony Banks/Phil Collins) – 4:50
5. "Afterglow" (Tony Banks) – 4:12

2007 SACD/CD/DVD Release

A new version of Wind & Wuthering was released in the U.K. and Japan on April 2, 2007. It was released in the US and Canada as part of the Genesis 1976-1982 box set on May 15, 2007. This includes the entire album in remixed stereo, the entire album in surround sound, and related video tracks.
• Disc 1, in the European and Japanese releases, is a hybrid SACD/CD disk. The stereo layer includes the remixed tracks, and the SACD layer is a multichannel surround sound remix.
• Disc 1, in the Canadian and U.S. releases, is a standard CD, containing the stereo remixes. No SACD layer is included
• Disc 2, in all releases, is a DVD-Video disk containing both audio and video tracks. This DVD includes three audio mixes of the album: DTS 5.1-channel surround sound, Dolby Digital 5.1-channel surround sound, and Dolby Digital stereo.[6] The DTS surround sound is a slightly compressed version of the surround sound on the SACD, and the Dolby surround sound is of slightly inferior quality to the DTS.
• Disc 2 also includes the following video tracks:
1. Band interview about this album (2006).
2. Genesis on The Mike Douglas Show (U.S. television), 1977 (sourced from bootleg video). Songs include "Your Own Special Way" and "Afterglow".
3. Japanese television appearance, 1977 (sourced from bootleg video). Songs include "Eleventh Earl of Mar", "One For the Vine", and "Your Own Special Way".
4. World Tour Program, from 1977 tour (13 page gallery).

Personnel

• Phil Collins – drums, percussion, vocals
• Steve Hackett – guitars, kalimba, autoharp
• Tony Banks – keyboards
• Mike Rutherford – basses, guitars, bass pedals

TAKING SMALL STEPS

By Anatoly Brooks

01. Intro
02. Ben Woods - Taking small steps pt. 1
03. Dustin O'Halloran - Opus 21
04. Old Jerusalem - Twice the humbling sun
05. Andrei Machado - Después de muertos
06. Efterklang - Horseback tenors
07. Espers - Cruel storm
08. George Winston - Tamarak pines
09. Clogs - Who's down now
10. The Strugglers - The rejection letters
11. Sparklehorses - Painbirds
12. Ludovico Einaudi - Monday
13. Lamb - Gabriel
14. Bersarin Quartett - Oktober
15. Sufjan Stevens - A good man is hard to find
16. Anthony & the Johnsons - Another World
17. Dakota Suite - Leaving home
18. The Lambchop - The scary caroler
19. Ben Woods - Taking small steps pt. 2

A photo by Sergej Sverdlik

RADIO ZERO 002

01 NOVEMBER 2008

track listing

01. Dawn Landes - Toy Piano
02. Epic45 - You said nothing
03. Clinic - Harmony
04. Iggy Pop - Afraid to get close
05. Dakota Suite - I turned away ...
06. Saltillo - A necessary end
07. Monika - Fraud
08. Divine Comedy - If
09. Pat Metheny - Cinema Paradiso
+ Al Berto - Há-de flutuar uma cidade...
10. Takahiro Kido - Landscape with snow
11. Willard Grant Conspiracy - From a distant shore
12. John Foxx - The garden
13. Death Cab For Cutie - I will follow you...
14. Worrytrain - End theme
15. Apollo 440 - Diamonds on the sidewalk
16. Worrytrain - Prelude for piano and malaria
17. Honeyroot - Love will tear us apart

photo by Alex Guerra

GOD EXISTS ?

by João H

01. Blasted Mechanism – Power On
02. Nirvana – Rape Me
03. Interpol – No I In Threesome
04. José Afonso – Era Um Redondo Vocabulo
05. Queensryche – Cats In The Cradle
06. Serj Tankian – Saving Us
07. Eddie Vedder – Hard Sun
08. Avenged Sevenfold – Dear God
09. Old Jerusalem – Grasshoppers
10. Xavier Rudd – Conceal Me
11. David Gilmour - There's No Way Out Of Here
12. Damien Rice – I Remember
13. Ozzy Ousborne – Mama I’m Cumin’ Home
14. Therion – Celtic Frost
15. 30 Seconds To Mars – The Fantasy
16. Alpha Blondy – Coco de Rasta

RÁDIO ZERO 001

25 October 2008

track listing

01. Raphael - Serpent
02. Steve Roach - Rain and Creoste
03. Bosques de Mi Mente - Tormenta Verano
04. Message to Bears - Swim
05. Underworld - Good Morning Cockerel
06. The Clogs - Lantern
07. Klaus Schulze - Crystal Lake
08. General Fuzz - Second Thoughts
09. Sidsel Endresen - Birds
10. Nitin Sawhney - Nadia
11. Balmorhea - Balleen Morning
12. The American Dollar - Lights Dim
+ Mário Cesariny - You Are Welcome to Elsinore
13. Vinicio Capossella - Lanterne Rosse
14. Patrick Watson - Brigettes Theme
15. One Second Bridge - Un Minuto
16. Aarktika - I Name You Sleep
17. Nico - Le Petit Chevalier
18. Ornatos Violeta - Um Crime
19. Sun Kil Moon - Arrival
20. Win Mertens - Justice

Intro voice by Clara
photo by Guido Stocco

SYNTHETIC WATERS

By Anatoly Brooks

01. Intro
02. The Clogs - Tides
03. The Clogs - Lantern
04. Vacabou - Barunka left
05. TE - Avarice would speak ...
06. Kammerflimmer Kollektief - Uber die wasserscheide
07. Raz Ohara & the Odd Orchestra - Where he at
08. Shawn Lee's Ping Pong Orchestra - Kiss the sky
09. The Afghan Whigs - I keep coming back
10. Gustavo Santa Olalla - La vuelta
11. Jeff Beck - Another place
12. Leaves - The Angela test
13. Rickie Lee Jones - Prelude to gravity
14. Summer McKane - The mighty Damaris Cotta
15. Wire - Patients flees
16. 93 Million Miles From the Sun - Take me away
17. EZ3kiel - Phatom land
18. Vacabou - Mediterrean park
19. David Holmes - Hey Lisa
20. Unkle - Synthetic water

A photo by Alexei Pantelei

JOHN CALE - MUSIC FOR NEW SOCIETY

Music for a New Society is an album by former Velvet Underground member John Cale. It was released in August 1982 on Island Records. It went in stark contrast with his previous few albums, which were packed with as much avant-garde noise as could be afforded, as it contained very minimalist instrumentation and a great deal of sonic space. Allmusic has called it "Spare, understated, and perhaps a masterpiece." "(I Keep A) Close Watch" is a re-recording of the song originally released on Helen of Troy. The original "Mama's Song", featured a telephone call between John Cale and his mother. She had sung "Arlan y Mor" (On The Sea Shore). When she was taken ill, Cale decided not to include it on the album. The engineer misread Cale's handwritten title of "Sanctus" and thus the track was named "Santies" on the LP. The CD reissue calls it "Sanities."

The song "Sanitites" is the inspiration for the title and closing quote of the twelfth chapter of the comic book "Watchmen" entitled "A Stronger Loving World".

The cover photography is by Betsey Johnson, Cale's former wife.

Track listing:

All tracks composed by John Cale; except where indicated

"Taking Your Life in Your Hands"
"Thoughtless Kind"
"Sanities"
"If You Were Still Around" (Cale, Sam Shepherd)
"(I Keep A) Close Watch"
"Broken Bird"
"Chinese Envoy"
"Changes Made"
"Damn Life" (Cale, Risé Cale)
"Risé, Sam and Rimsky-Korsakov" (Cale, Sam Shepherd)
"In the Library of Force" (included on CD reissues since 1993

MUSICIANS:
John Cale: vocals, guitars, keyboards
Allen Lanier: guitar
David J. Young: guitar, assistant engineer
David Lichtenstein: accompanyment, engineer
John Wonderling: accompanyment
Mike McLintock: accompanyment
Robert Elk: accompanyment
Pipe Major Tom Fitzgibbon: accompanyment
Chris Spedding: acoustic guitar
Risé Cale: vocal on "Risé, Sam And Rimsky-Korsakov

Producer: John Cale

Rhino Records
1982

RÁDIO ETIÓPIA NA RÁDIO ZERO

A partir de amanhã, 25/10 e todos os sábados ás 17 Horas,
a Rádio Etiópia emite um programa na RÁDIO ZERO em www.radiozero.pt, a maior rádio portuguesa on-line.
Um pequeno passo para nós e um grande salto para a Humanidade.
Repete ás 2ªs ás 02H00, hora de Lisboa.
Os programas da RE na Rádio Zero serão publicados todas as semanas, na nossa página.

SECOND THOUGHTS

by Tony Justerini

01. Intro
02. Raphael - Disappearing into you
03. Glowworm - Nightshores
04. The American Dollar - Lights Dim
05. Da Vinci Code - Winds of change
06. Immanu El - Home
07. Lanterns on the Lake - I will lay you down
08. Ramin Djawadi - Hallway burial
09. The Veils - Vicious tradition
10. Peter Broderick - Atlantic
11. Matthew Robert Cooper - Miniature 5
12. Nine Horses - Atom and Cell
13. Eluvium - Prelude for time feelers
14. Brian Eno & J. Peter Schwalm - Intenser
15. Raphael - Primitive silence
16. Hans-Joachim Rodelius & Tim Story - House of glances
17. Message to Bears - To make a portrait

photo by Michael Maximov

CITY LIGHTS

By Anatoly Brooks

01. Intro
02. Arborea - Wafaring summer
03. Steffen Basho - A lost moment
04. Gastr Del Sol - Bauchredner
05. Six Organs of Admitance - Home
06. Final Fantasy - The CN tower belongs to the dead
07. Set Fire to Flames - Your guts are like mine
08. Steve Von Till - Clothes of sand
09. Sodastream - Looking back
10. Summer McKane - Underwater disorientation
11. Shannon Wright - Whe light shone down
12. Inner - Lullabye
13. Kammerflimmer Kollektief - Über die wasserscheide
14. Snow Patrol - Chasing cars
15. Calexico - Two sisters tree
16. Sebastien Schuller - Wolf
17. Takeshi Nishimoto - Refelctions
18. Lonely Drifter Karen - The owl moans low
19. Flying Saucer Attack - For silence
20. The Moutains Goats - Tianchi lake
21. Spiritualized - Soul on fire
22. July Skies - Afternoon pips

A photo by Kostya Yalanzhi

THE SOUND - FROM THE LION'S MOUTH

From the Lion's Mouth, released in 1981, is the second album of The Sound. The album was re-released in 2002 by Renascent Records in a remastered version. This release included the 1982 single "Hothouse." This is not included as a separate track, but as a continuation of New Dark Age - before his death, Adrian Borland had stated that the reissues should have the same track order and listing as the originals, and this was a way of getting around this while still respecting his wishes.

" Lions Mouth could be the end of the line for me & "ROCK" records.
- It's that good "
STEVE SUTHERLAND, Melody Maker

TRACK LISTING:

01. Winning
02. Sense of purpose
03. Contact the fact
04. Skeletons
05. Judgement
06. Fatal flaw
07. Possession
08. The fire
09. Silent air
10. New dark age

Personnel:

Adrian Borland - Vocals, guitars
Graham Green - Bass
Max Mayers - Keyboards
Michael Dudley - Drums, percussion

Produced by Hugh Jones & The Sound
Cover concept - Howard Hughes
Cover Art - Briton Riviere

Warner Records
1981

THE PERFECT BALLROOM

by Tony Justerini

01. Intro
02. Dustin O'Halloran - Opus 23
03. Sidsel Endersen & B. Wesseltoft - Birds
04. Gregor Samsa - Young and Old
05. Message to Bears - Swim
06. Trygve Seim - Mmball
07. Steve Jansen - Life moves on
08. Gordian Knot - Grace
09. Alessandro Bosetti - Her name
10. The American Dollar - Signaling through the flames
11. The Album Leaf - Guest of
12. Bell Orchestre - The upwards march
13. Explosions in the Sky - First breath after coma
14. Ludovico Einaudi - Melodia africana

photo by Sergej Lenskij

OUTONO

By Anatoly Brooks

01. Intro
02. Unknown
03. Ultra Dolphins - Mar
04. Dakota Suite - Loss
05. Eluvium - Genius & the thieves
06. Filipa Pais - Em todas as ruas te encontro
07. Aughra & Mosh Patrol - Dog years
08. Danças Ocultas - Primeira hora
09. Harold Budd - As long as i can hold my breath
10. Nick Cave - Bless his ever loving heart
11. Colleen - Les ondes silencieuses
12. At Swim Two Birds - In bed with your best friend
13. Mário Laginha & Bernardo Sassetti - Sonho dos outros
14. Triteza - City of future
15. Herbie Hancock - Both sides now
16. Elvis Perkins - Good friday
17. Kaki King - Can anyone who was heard this music really be a bad person
18. Feist - The water
19. Unkle - The piano echoes
20. A Sunny Day In Glasgow - Wake up pretty
21. Homesick for Space - Smoke & steam
22. Hope Sandoval & the Warm Inventations - Baby let me

A photo by Nina Efremova